Talk:Corsham

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Claim to be a town

Corsham is not listed in the List of towns in England. Is there a source for the claim to be a town?. -- Chris j wood 11:14, 28 Oct 2004 (UTC)
Yes - here (scroll down to the first paragraph of thumbnail history - 'Corsham is a small town in a...'). It's... Thelb4! 18:35, 5 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

To do

I have added a new to do list (at the top). I invite you to claim items that you want to spend some time on, and be bold in adding new material to the article. ~~Click this watch link to watch the to do list.~~ --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 09:23, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Infobox

This infobox {{Infobox England place}} looks the most appropriate. Lets fill it out, then paste it into the article. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:28, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Could we have the photograph in the infobox, and the location map as a separate illustration further down the article? I think the photo is a more striking and interesting way to start the article? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 10:56, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Done. All we need now is the population. Thanks for lending your expertise, Steinsky. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 12:40, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Got the population, and posted the infobox. Thanks again! --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 13:02, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Article class

Now we have the infobox and an overview of the key features of the district, I think this is a B-Class article. I have changed the box above - but is it right for me to tag it myself (I did a little of the work) or is there a place to ask an outside editor to review and tag it?

A few more to the 'to do' list attempted, and it could go for Good Article review. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 13:22, 5 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge from Corsham Railway Cutting

That article consists of one sentence and some links. I think both articles will benefit from moving the material here. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 14:16, 11 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Corsham Railway Cutting is part of a systematic listing of all Sites of Special Scientific Interest, and is I think best left alone. Rwendland 23:56, 15 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

External links

Would someone consider, please, adding http://corshamdiary.org.uk to the list of links? thanks v. much. Jim Avery, web admin for Corsham Diary —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.11.20 (talk) 22:20, 31 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good site, Jim. Historically, I added a dozen or more web links (schools, sports clubs, news feeds, that kind of thing(. Quite rightly, fellow editors thought it looked like a web directory, and culled most of them. I don't think your list of upcoming events meets Wikipedia's external links policy, because it doesn't link to further information that will, one day, be included in the article. In other words, the information you post is very useful to anyone interested in Corsham, but it is not encyclopedic. I think those worthy portals should go too. Just my opinion. --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 19:42, 12 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Many thanks for taking the time to have a look and explain. Making it a requirement that the destination of a link must be encyclopaedic seems to me utterly bizarre and contrary to the spirit of the World Wide Web, but that's a discussion for another time and place. Thanks again. Jim. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.11.20 (talk) 04:46, 17 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

OK, I have put my mouse where my mouth is, and removed the following 4 links from the article. While they provide useful additional information about Corsham, I don't think their information is encyclopedic in the spirit described by English Wikipedia's external links policy.

Corsham 2day
Corsham Festival
Corsham headlines from Wiltshire Gazette & Herald weekly newspaper (Newsquest)
Corsham news from Wiltshire Times weekly newspaper (Newsquest)

I have also tweaked some of the other links so that they link into what (in my opinion) are the most interesting and encyclopedic pages on those sites. Is the article looking any better for it? --Hroðulf (or Hrothulf) (Talk) 08:17, 16 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I came across this profile of Corsham recently. Not sure if it should be added as an external link or not, but it might well be interesting if looking to add a little more to this page. [1] - Jim Avery —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.172.179.40 (talk) 12:13, 23 April 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Please note that the web site "Corsham Net" in the references section has now been removed. It is now (and will remain for the time being) only a simple site of links to other important sites in Corsham - I presume it will no longer be suitable to list it in the references section. - Jim Avery —Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.172.179.40 (talk) 11:29, 1 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]